Car-door fastening



Patented Apr. I8, I899.

B. G. SGHENGK.

GAB DOOR FASTENING.

(Application filed Apr. 22, 1898.)

(No Modql.)

' A TTUHNEY fastened to the side of the car.

curely lock the hasp to the keeper.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT C. SOHENCK, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

CAR-DOOR FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,259, dated April 18, 1899.

- Application filed April 22, 1898.

' ings for sliding freight-car doors, though its use is equally applicable to other classes of doors or windows, whether sliding or swinging; and it has for its object the provision of a fastening which 'shall be strong, exceedingly efficient in action, and cheap in construction.

The novelty of my invention will be hereinafter set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a freightcar door, showing the application of my improved fastening in its locking position. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 00 00, looking to the right. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the locking-staple or headed bolt.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts in all the figures.

Myimproved fastening is on the hasp-andstaple order, though the staple that I employ is not the conventional looped staple, but rather a screw or bolt with an enlarged outer end, forming a keeper for the hasp, and whose inner sides stand slightly away from theside of the car or other part to which it may be affixed and over which is slipped the end of the hasp. While I prefer the use of a bolt to form the keeper, the latter may be part of or secured to a plate screwed or otherwise The hasp is suitably hinged to the door and with an opening through it at its lower part sufficiently large to pass over the enlarged end of the staple and an upper slot or opening communicating therewith to slip around the neck of the keeper behind its projecting sides to se- This is my invention in its broadest sense, though there are other valuable details of construc- Serial No. 678,494. (No model.)

tion is merely to permit of the bodily lifting of the hasp in engaging it with and disengaging it from the keeper G, as will be presently explained. Any other convenient manner of connecting and hinging the hasp might be employed. The opposite end of the hasp has an enlarged lower opening or aperture through it, into which opens from above a slot or second aperture F, the construction being such that when the hasp is lifted the T-shaped head' of the keeper G, which is made fast in the side of the car in any suitable manner, may pass by partially swinging the hasp through the opening E and then by releasing the hasp the slot or narrow opening F will slip down around the neck of the staple and be held against its rear walls, as will be readily understood. In addition to the beveled surface at e I have beveled the surface 7 over the neck of the keeper and also the surface 71. of the head of the keeper,

as seen in Fig. 2, and I have provided on the under side of the keeper and loop 61 on the front face of the hasp shouldered detents f g, the purpose of this construction being that when the hasp is engaged with the keeper the inclines e i will cause it to slide out slightly I the keeper to be jolted back to its place by the motion of the car, and thus becolne'selftion, all of which I will now proceed to del locked, with its sl otlembracifig the neck of the keeper. Any suitable seal, such as those now in general use, may be employed to lock the hasp and keeper in their adjusted positions, and when the seal is removed to unlock the car I have provided a projecting rib j on the front of the hasp, which not only serves to strengthen it, but afiords a grasping-handle by which it can be first pressed back against the side of the car, then lifted bodily to disengage the slot F from the neck of the keeper, and then swung outward to permit the opening E to pass over the head of the keeper and become disengaged therefrom, all as will be readily understood.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim- 2. In a fastener of the character described, the combination of alaterally-headed keeper, having an outward incline on its neck and an inward incline on its head, a hasp therefor having an enlarged lower opening to pass over the head of the keeper and an upper narrower opening to engage the neck of the keeper and lock the hasp behind its head, and provided beneath the head with locking-detents, and suitable means for hinging the 0p-' posite end of the hasp, substantially as described. 1

3. The herein-described fastening composed of the loop-strap D with loop (I and incline e, the hasp 0 having slot 0 engaged by said loop, and also having the enlarged opening E and slot F opening therein and the lockingdetents f g, and the headed keeper Gr with inclines h '11, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

, ROBERT C. SCHEN OK.

WVitnesses:

' M. B. EPPsHAw, W. IIUCASSEL. 

